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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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French Moralist
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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
In every man there is something of all men.
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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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